An Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet - Prajna Quest

366 TIBET.brother, Regent Chanjoo Cooshoo, Punjun Irtlnnee Nimoheim, and hisconfidant Soopoon Choomboo, Cooshoo Shapie, who entertain not theshadow of a doubt of the Emperor's receding from his word, but assureme of their beUef, that he will ratify the promises made tothe formerTeshoo Lama, the moment the present Lama is capable of renewingthe application, when the proposed regulations willimmediately takeplace.The success of your designs is too obviously, and too intimately,connected with this event, to need any comment.If Teshoo Lama shallbe made to resume the plans projected by him in his presumed preexistence,for the recovery of the prerogatives annexed to the office ofLama ; the same consistency of conduct will certainly prompt him tolook back to the negociations of 17 75, to the proposal of afree intercourseof trade between Tibet and Bengal, which then coincided withhis desires, and which seems at last to have been one motive, and object,of his solicitude for the extension of his privileges.I am aware that it may be asked, why the agents of governmentunder Teshoo Lama, were not dismissed with thepromised powers?and this omission, 1 think, may be satisfactorily accounted for, fromthe consternation, and confusion, in which his sudden death necessarilyinvolved all his attendants, depriving them of the ability topursue proper measures, for the accomplishment of their designs. Ibelieve the fact is, that they were incompetent to the attempt; for,being merely the agents of Teshoo Lama, they rightly reflected, thattheir intercessions with the Emperor would have little weight, whentheir superior was no more.Prudence therefore enjoined their silence.